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Job title: Research Fellow in Postdigital Cultures

Job reference: REQ005591

Application closing date: 10/12/2017

Faculty / School or Service: Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Salary: £37,713 - £53,698 per annum

Package: As one of Coventry's biggest employers, we offer some pretty impressive benefits including an excellent pension scheme and generous holiday allowances.

Job category/type: Research

Job description: Full-time, Permanent

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) is a new Faculty Research Centre established in 2017. Led by Prof. Gary Hall, the Centre explores how innovations in postdigital cultures can enable 21st century society to respond to the challenges it faces at a global, national and local level:

- how we receive, consume and process information

- how we learn, work, and travel

- how we engage and regenerate our communities

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures is a major new initiative that builds on the strong and distinctive track record of scholars at the university encompassing a range of disciplines in the arts and humanities. This is the chance for you to join the CPC team at the beginning of its journey and to play a significant role in the development of impactful research activity within the emerging field of postdigital cultures.

What Do We Mean By Postdigital Cultures?

"The digital" can no longer be understood as a separate domain of media and culture. If we actually examine the digital - rather than taking it for granted we already know what it means - we soon see that today digital information processing is present in every aspect of our lives. This includes our global communication, entertainment, education, energy, banking, health, transport, manufacturing, food, and water-supply systems. Attention therefore needs to turn from "the digital", to the various overlapping processes and infrastructures that shape and organise the digital, and that the digital helps to shape and organise in turn.

The CPC investigates such enmeshed digital models of culture, society, and the creative economy for the 21st century "postdigital" world.

Research Areas covered by the Centre include:

- Creative Archiving and International Heritage

- Digital Arts and Humanities

- Post-humanities

- Affirmative Disruption and Open Media

- The 21st Century University and Art School

-Post-capitalist Economies

The Research Fellow post will report to the Executive Director and will focus on:

1. Planning, developing and managing own and collaborative research activity, using specialist knowledge.

2.Publishing as principal author or co-author, and disseminating research findings through papers, books, presentations at conferences (including international peer-reviewed conferences), exhibitions, performances, short courses for knowledge transfer.

3.Using research as a driving force for cultural, social and political change at a global, national and local level.

4.Initiating ideas for generating income and seeking funding opportunities preparation and submission of bids and tenders.

5.Developing research objectives, projects and proposals, and conducting individual or collaborative research projects that demonstrate impact.

6.Taking lead responsibility for small/medium research projects or major part of a large research programme.

7.Contributing actively to applied research groups or communities of practice internally and/or externally.

8.Supervising and examining PhD students with appropriate support.

Requirements for the post:

-PhD in a relevant subject.

- Substantial experience working in research in digital culture with a national reputation in the relevant field.

Updated on 9 January, 2018.
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